Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Fall Festival 2014
Fall Festival 2014
Welp, the Fonner sisters converged on Evansville this weekend for the annual West Side Nut Club Fall Festival. Otherwise known as the "Eat Yourself Stupid Festival" or also sometimes referred to as the "Can you BELIEVE that s/he is wearing THAT Festival?!"
It would be way, way, way too embarrassing to recap everything I ate. So I wont go there. But rest assured the only part of my "diet" that made it to Franklin street was my portion control. As in, we shared everything we got so my portions of each thing I had were in check. Unfortunately, I did not then take it one step further and limit the number of things we got.
Saturday morning we caught the Pet Parade. As per usual, the parade is advertised to begin at 9am.... but it doesnt start until 10. At least this year, weve finally figured that out and didnt get there quite as early as we have in years past. But there was still enough time before the parade for 6 out of 6 kids to have a meltdown. At one point, Tyler is dragging me down Franklin Street and Lily is following behind crying at the top of her lungs. It was awesome and not at all embarrassing.
"Hey kids, lets get a picture of you with Grams!" Bahahahaahhahahahahahaha. Sometimes I have THE BEST ideas EVER.
I did manage to get a decent shot of me and the kiddos before the meltdowns intensified too much.
Then the parade finally started and then you remember why its worth the meltdowns and crying and fighting. "MOMMY! Mommy, look! Look, Mommy, look! LOOK!!" Their crazy excitement over seeing some dogs wearing costumes is totally contagious and I find myself hollering, "LOOK, Tyler, LOOK! A PIRATE DOG!! Lily, look, Lily, LOOK! An Elsa with her OLAF BUNNY RABBIT!!"
All the yummy goodness at the Fall Festival and I wasnt successful at getting the kids to try much of anything. Lily got cotton candy (which Tyler enjoyed too) and that was it for her. The only other thing I got Tyler to try was the Monster Ear. I told him it was like a cinnamon roll with syrup on it. He was all over that.
That concludes Fall Festival 2014. Good thing too cause my pants are cutting off the circulation to my brain.
Besides eating until we busted our guts, Mom graciously offered to watch ALL SIX GRANDBABIES (plus Jason) by herself on TWO separate occasions so Jenny, Katie and I could shop til we dropped. I dont think Ive ever spent that much money in one day shopping in my life. Having your sisters, who have very honest opinions, coupled with the freedom and options that come with weight loss was a very bad combination for my wallet....and my closet.... It was awesome. And now Im cut off.
The kiddos played pretty well together though 6 kids and 4 adults in one room is enough to test anyones sanity. We are slowly working on getting the older kids more comfortable with playing in the basement (by themselves) in order to preserve whats left of our wits. At one point, they were playing hide and seek. Jackson was counting while Lily, Tyler and Ayden "hid." Check out Lily and Tylers hiding spot. Cause if I cant see you, you cant see me, right?
Hunting for Jackson..... he is just GONE.
Oh wait! There he is!
Kenzie may not have gotten in on the hide and seek action but she definitely did get her turn on the big wheels.
Heres just a few more random shots of the babes.....
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Monday, September 5, 2016
We had a great time at Hillside Music Festival!
We had a great time at Hillside Music Festival!
Friday, Sue and John were busy getting ready to perform at Hillside Music Festival over the weekend. Laurel and I ran to the grocery store to get milk because Id hoped to head to the festival for the evening too. We were expecting thunderstorms and I hoped to run in and out ... except the ramp on my van got stuck out when I got out. I spent about 45 minutes trying to figure out what to do. I couldnt find the hand crank for the ramp and whenever I pushed the power button, the ramp moved sideways and hit the sliding door. It looked like it was going to rain any minute and I realized I couldnt close up the van, much less secure it or drive it anywhere. A nice woman with three young children asked if I needed help. She asked a guy who happened to be walking past if he knew anything about wheelchair accessible vans ... surprisingly, he did not! But he agreed to try to help anyway. I searched in the very back and found the hand crank and then looked at the modifications handbook. The two people who had stopped helped me crank and we got the ramp into the van. Once we were successful at that, the ramp became normally functional again. In the midst of everything, I realized that the only two phone numbers I had on my Canadian phone were Sue and Johns and I couldnt reach them. By the time I was heading back to the farm, I figured it wouldnt be a good idea to go to the festival. I called Sue to tell her and she convinced me that I should come. She and John turned around and came back to let me follow them to the island (where the festival is held). We decided to take Hardy too since John could handle him for me.
It was really crowded at the festival and Hardy did a great job walking through all the people. At one point, we had to walk right past a big stack of speakers that were booming. Hardy stopped to think about all the noise for a minute before walking on. Overall, he did a great job although he did get tired of sitting on my lap while Sue and John participated in the opening ceremonies. On the way back out to the van, Hardy got to ride on Johns shoulders ... it was a lot of walking for a little brown puppy.
Yesterday, Laurel and I went back to the festival, leaving Hardy at home. A friend, Kathy promised to come to feed, let him out, and play with him. She sent me a text message telling me that hed done great which was a relief since Id never left him alone for that long before!
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